Oil Motors: Their Development, Construction, and Management. A Handbook for Engineers, Owners, Attendents, and All Interested in Engines Using Liquid Fuel.
by Lieckfeld, G
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
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- Very Good/No Jacket
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1908. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. Large Octavo. xv (i), 272 pp, illus. First American Edition, 1908. Inked name on half-title. preface, 12 chapters with analytical table of contents, list of 366 illustrations with b&w line drawings etc., index. 3" gutter closed tear to front end papers at joint, with minor external wear, and lightly age-toned text block, and margins, No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.6" x 9.1". Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine..
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- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7412
- Title
- Oil Motors: Their Development, Construction, and Management. A Handbook for Engineers, Owners, Attendents, and All Interested in Engines Using Liquid Fuel.
- Author
- Lieckfeld, G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING HISTORY OIL MOTORS Paraffin Motors - Diesel Engines CONSTRUCTION HANDBOOK
- Bookseller catalogs
- SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY;
- Size
- Large Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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